Recently, Department of Facilities and Financial Support of MOST and China’s Agenda 21 jointly held the Meeting on the Summarization of Progress of Innovation Projects 2007 in Beijing. 

In 2007, MOST initiated its work on innovation methods involving the overall research on innovation methods, scientific thinking, scientific approaches, scientific facilities and technological innovation approaches among others. Currently, work on innovation methods is going smoothly and some initial progress has been made. Guided by “Some Suggestions on the Improvement of Innovation Methods” jointly promulgated by four government departments including MOST, the MOST will work with relevant departments to push forward the work on innovation methods to provide stronger support for building China into an innovative country through enhancement of our independent innovation capacity.